In response to Joe Raben's surprise, condensed history of humanities
computing, whose efforts I have swung into and out of over the
past 23 years, one additional word of comment: Wow!
Sincerely,
Joel Goldfield
Fairfield University

At the end of this massive tribute from Joe Raben to his friends
colleagues and other cohorts in humanities computing, he requsts
data on other unmentioned project that might have gone under.

Contrary to all the pundits' prolific predictions, Project Gutenberg
not only did not go under, but has continued it's spectactular growth
on a logarithmic curve in excess of Moore's Law, as in this graph:

In addition, Project Gutenberg added its 30th language, Romanian, this week,
and is about to announce a new site with over 100 languages represented.

A month ago, Project Gutenberg of Europe released its first 100 eBooks,
an plans to present eLibraries in over 50 languages.

Project Gutenberg of Australia has already released nearly 350 eBooks.

Project Gutenbergs of Canada and Luxembourg are opening soon, with new
entries from all the European Union nations expected in the near future.

If the growth rate listed above continues for only one more decade,
Project Gutenberg will be offering over one million books by 2014,
and the next step will be to translate these million eBooks into
100 different languages.

By the time this is all complete, perhaps by Project Gutenberg's
50th Anniversary in 2021, we hope to provide 10 million eBooks
from all over the world, and present them in 100 languages,
for a total 1 billion, and we hope to distribute these to
1 billion readers, 15% of thw world population.